Chapter 19 How to Make Air Conditioners
"I thought of you to customize a bronze ware here. I wonder if the boss can do it?" Qian Xiaoxing asked.
"As long as the customer can speak, the small ones can be done." The boss boasted.
Qian Xiaoxing kidnapped his sleeves and said, "Okay, come with paper and pen, I'll draw it for you."
"What is paper? No, there is a pen."
"There is no paper yet?" Qian Xiaoxing couldn't help but wonder. It's really inconvenient to have not invented paper in this era: "Then take a big wooden board and I'll draw it on it."
"Okay, wait a moment." The boss took a wooden board and a brush over for a while.
Qian Xiaoxing took the brush and recalled the appearance of the cooling water pipe. He drew it. He drew it soon after, and showed it to the boss. He pointed to the picture and explained: "This is a copper pipe. It can be filled with water in the middle. It can be poured from the top and flowed out from the bottom. Can the boss do it?"
The boss looked at the curved water pipes and thought about it. Although it was a bit difficult, he just cast them in half, then put them together, and then glue them with copper water. It is estimated that the problem is not big: "You can do it."
"The boss is indeed very skilled. There is another process behind it. It requires a lot of copper sheets and then sticks them to these copper pipes. Can it be done?" Qian Xiaoxing thought about the heat sink and had to connect it directly to the copper pipe to achieve the effect.
"How much does this copper piece need?"
"The more you are, the thinner you are, and as long as you can stick it, it will stick it."
"If it is too thin, it is not easy to stick. It will melt when it hits copper water. I will do my best." The boss replied.
"Yeah, okay, how much does it cost to order?"
"This thing is very strange. What is the purpose of the guest officer?"
"Don't ask what you do. If you do it well, you will do a lot of things in the future."
"That's right, I guess three or four taels of silver will depend on how many kilograms of copper were consumed in the end."
"Three or four taels? Is it too expensive?" Qian Xiaoxing thought that the total budget was only five taels of silver.
"If you customize it, it will be more expensive. We also need to make molds and make them later, so it will be cheaper."
"Okay, it seems that you are very realistic, so let's do it first, and then you will have to get a discount when you do it later." Qian Xiaoxing didn't know the ancient prices and couldn't pay back the money. He could only say as much as the boss said.
"Okay, the guest will withdraw it in two days and give you a certain amount of money first."
"Okay, it's better to be quicker." Qian Xiaoxing took out five taels of silver, and the boss weighed the silver with a small scale and returned four taels.
Qian Xiaoxing and Butler Lu walked out of the copperware shop. The most critical radiator seemed to be solved. There is another turbine at the bottom. In layman's terms, it is the machine that uses water to drive the blades to rotate. Qian Xiaoxing imagines that the turbine will rotate with a fan and blow the air through the radiator. It should be said that it is a cooler to cool the air.
This turbine is too bulky to cast with copper, so I am afraid that the water pressure is too small and I can't push it. I thought of using wood to make it.
"Butler Lu, is there a better wooden shop here?"
"Of course there is, I'll take you there." Butler Lu couldn't see the bronze ware customized by Qian Xiaoxing, but he was also very curious.
The two walked to the wooden shop again. Like the bronze shop, Qian Xiaoxing drew a picture and asked the boss to customize it. This equipment was relatively simple. A circular shaft was filled with many wood chips. Just imagine if water flowed down from the wooden board on one side, the wooden board fell heavily, which would drive the circular shaft to rotate.
After negotiating the price was four cents of silver, Qian Xiaoxing paid one cent first to set the money.
After implementing these two important parts issues, Qian Xiaoxing thought about the entire process of air conditioning.
First, a water tank filled with water at a high place puts the water down and passes through the radiator. The water from the radiator pushes the turbine below. The turbine pushes the fan, and the fan air blows through the air duct to the heat dissipation. The air flows through the radiator and cools down, and then blows the wind into the room.
This air conditioner is theoretically valid, but Qian Xiaoxing is not sure about the actual effect. However, if the temperature can be reduced by several degrees, that is not good. If it really doesn't work, add a few more radiators and increase the fan's power a little, it will always be effective.
The last question is the water tank at a high place, which is the source of power for the entire air conditioner. Qian Xiaoxing has also thought of a solution. If he uses manpower to lift the water up, there are obviously not many people who can use such an air conditioner, because he has to hire someone to keep filling water. It is better to let him keep fanning the next to him.
Therefore, the best way is to have a water truck. When Qian Xiaoxing was walking on the street, he saw a small river in the city passing through the city, and the river connects with the moat outside, with a relatively large water flow and a very fast flow rate.
As long as you build a water truck by this small river, the water truck is generally round. When the water flows, it will push the water truck to rotate. At this time, some water buckets are installed under the water truck, and when it enters the water truck, it will fill it up. Then, after the water truck rotates to a high place, pour out the water, and an automatic water pump will be formed.
The water can be poured into the water tank next to the water truck, and then the air pipes can be used to direct the water tank in the courtyard, which forms kinetic energy transmission.
The small river is only about twenty meters away from the courtyard where Qian Xiaoxing lives, and it is more convenient to divert water.
When Qian Xiaoxing thought of this, he took Butler Lu to the river and inspected it on the spot. There were many ports beside the river, which must be used by residents to wash laundry and vegetables.
Qian Xiaoxing saw that the river channel was narrower and the water flowed fast, so it was just right to build a water truck at this location.
The two returned to the courtyard and saw a trolley parked at the door, loading a lot of wooden boards. Fang Ying and Lan Xiaocui were instructing the two carpenters to carry the wooden boards.
After Qian Xiaoxing and Butler Lu also helped unload the wooden board, Qian Xiaoxing found a brush and drew a picture on the wooden board, namely the air supply duct and the air suction duct. The pipes are about half a meter wide and half a meter high square shape.
The air supply vent is below the room and the suction vent is above the room, because Qian Xiaoxing remembers that the hot air density is low, it will rise.
Then I drew a fan diagram, which is actually very simple. Just like the principle of a turbine, several wooden boards are inserted into a circular axis, and the rotating axis boards fan the air, forming a fan.
I asked the names of two carpenters, one was Carpenter Sun and the other was Carpenter Li. After hearing this, the two carpenters thought that this thing was too simple, and it was simpler than making tables, chairs and benches. Carpenter Sun said: "Don't worry, I'll make sure that you'll be satisfied with it."
"That's good. I need to make a water truck tomorrow. You can call a few more people and also a cylinder. I'll draw a picture first. You can prepare the materials." Qian Xiaoxing then drew a simple water truck pattern on the wooden board and counted it. It would take about sixteen logs, two meters long. In this way, the water truck would be four meters high from the ground, and the water tank would be four meters high at that time, and the water pressure would be quite large at this height.
Carpenter Sun obviously didn't know about the water wheel, and had never seen it before: he asked in confusion: "What's the use of this thing?"
"You will understand when you do it. Prepare the materials tomorrow and wait at the small river at the intersection." Qian Xiaoxing ordered.
Carpenter Sun replied: "Okay, let's call a few more people tomorrow."
"You can do the work here first," Qian Xiaoxing pointed to the picture and said, "There are also blocked areas in the room and those gaps in the floor."
"Finish, let's go."
After Qian Xiaoxing gave the order, he saw that it was noon and he had two important parts in half a day. The water truck began to be built tomorrow. At this speed, you can see the air conditioner running in three days.
Qian Xiaoxing thought about some details again, but without physical reference, many problems still cannot be discovered now. As long as we keep correcting and modifying, Qian Xiaoxing thinks that this air conditioner will definitely work.
Then Qian Xiaoxing calculated the account. The most expensive radiator, three to four taels, three to five cents, and four cents of water turbines. The wooden board I bought just now is 4 taels and four cents, and now it is not considered a carpenter's work. If you build a water truck tomorrow, you will have to pay two taels of silver. The budget exceeds the standard, so you will be in trouble.
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Chapter completed!